You can get WhatsApp and Signal on a BlackBerry?
Why wouldn't you be able to?
FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry
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Re: FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yea this is key. It's possible to have Signal on your device but not implement any device locking passcode or passcode for unlocking Signal... That would make it trivial to recover data if you have the device.
An alternative method of protecting oneself is to set an expiry timer, which makes messages in a conversation ephemeral. 1 week seems to be a fine balance between being able to look back at old messages, while also not having those you communicate with be allowed to store data on your device for too long.
That's a good idea. Even if you enable FDE and a strong passphrase, the court can still compel you to unlock it. They cannot compel you to automagically undelete expired messages (hopefully those are expired and removed in a secure mannner...)
Re: FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry
#33Trump is in trouble now. EDIT: It is suspected that Michael Cohen, being a long time Trump friend and personal lawyer, is familiar with Trump's money laundering. If Michael Cohen believes he's at risk of being sent to jail for many years, he might collaborate with the FBI.
A lot of trouble. A Ukrainian national said in an interview that he testified in front of a grand jury convened by the Mueller investigation last Friday. He said that the prosecutor's questions focused on Cohen so he is about to be squeezed from both sides and his family is now selling several multimillion dollar apartments (including his in-laws), supposedly to cover legal bills. His current legal team will cease al…
That is why I read Hacker News. The media will try cover up and protect Trump no matter what. Good thing commenters here can scoop the media and expose his lies.
Re: FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry
#34The article doesn't specify whether or not the encryption was "broken", or whether Cohen is simply cooperating. My hunch tells me it's the latter.
obligatory: https://xkcd.com/538/
Re: FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry
#35You can get WhatsApp and Signal on a BlackBerry?
Wasn't one of the main selling points of WhatsApp back in the day that it ran on basically anything?
Re: FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry
#36The article doesn't specify whether or not the encryption was "broken", or whether Cohen is simply cooperating. My hunch tells me it's the latter.
Bruce S. Trust the math.
grugq, endpoints suck.
Bet he sung.
Re: FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of trouble. A Ukrainian national said in an interview that he testified in front of a grand jury convened by the Mueller investigation last Friday. He said that the prosecutor's questions focused on Cohen so he is about to be squeezed from both sides and his family is now selling several multimillion dollar apartments (including his in-laws), supposedly to cover legal bills. His current legal team will cease al…
That is why I read Hacker News. The media will try cover up and protect Trump no matter what. Good thing commenters here can scoop the media and expose his lies.
Maybe if your definition of media is Fox News and Fox News alone. Washington Post, NY Times, CNN, MSNBC, and hell even Yahoo News have been the ones revealing most of these details for the public to see through what must be some of the best investigative journalism in history. Although I hate the panel circus, false equivocating, and general pussy footing in the media, they have been doing an admirable job. In the last week we've also seen more and more on screen personalities call out Trump's lies as lies instead of "inaccurate statements" so even that is changing.
The only better sources for developments in this fiasco are the unsealed court documents coming out of the investigation.
Re: FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of trouble. A Ukrainian national said in an interview that he testified in front of a grand jury convened by the Mueller investigation last Friday. He said that the prosecutor's questions focused on Cohen so he is about to be squeezed from both sides and his family is now selling several multimillion dollar apartments (including his in-laws), supposedly to cover legal bills. His current legal team will cease al…
That is why I read Hacker News. The media will try cover up and protect Trump no matter what. Good thing commenters here can scoop the media and expose his lies.
How are you sure that the parent comments isn't lying to you, either? I'm not saying that it is, but you should take more care to verify your sources rather than relying on random commenters on a technology forum…
Re: FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry
#39If there's one (family of) devices(s) that the FBI certainly knows how to 100% completely pwn the shit out of... it's the Blackberry.
Re: FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry
#40Manfort [not Cohen, as I originally wrote, but Manafort] had his message stored on iCloud. That turned out to be part of how the FBI was able to recover them so easily. https://gizmodo.com/paul-manafort-learns-that-encrypting-mes...
Well I am not sure about blackberry but android and ios are fully compromised[0]. 0: https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/ ?
Blackberry is just a skin of Android these days.